Progressive environmentalist Greta Neubauer — in her first election — won the primary in the 66th Assembly District in Wisconsin in a special election! No GOP candidate entered the race. Greta will now be in the Wisconsin Assembly. Neubauer said, 'I became active in the environmental movement when I saw politicians mortgaging my generation’s future because they were afraid to stand up to the fossil fuel industry. I have been fighting for an economy based in the principles of resilience and equity, an economy for all of us, ever since.'

RT @electionwatchus: In Wisconsin Assembly District 66, Greta Neubauer has won the Democratic primary. Barring a write-in campaign, she has… at

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